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...east, where the Italians had expected the first attack, another Australian force cracked the outer line again, cutting off a string of pillboxes. The Australians swept two miles into the defenses through both breaks. At nightfall 5,000 Italians had been taken prisoner...
...yard police staff has as yet no definite suspects in mind, but is pursuing the trail of the Snooper Man in relentless fashion. One tutor threatened dire punishment to the guilty one when finally apprehended, declaring "By golly, we'll string him up by the thumbs...
...Crimson mermen should have no difficulty in taking Greenwood and thus extending for another year the long string of victories Harvard swimmers have rung up against their traditional rivals who hall from Gardner, Mass...
...band until his father moved to the country to run a general store. Aged 12, Mike worked in a Chicago carnival pitch where anyone who could throw three balls into a bucket got a free duck. Mike's job was to sit hidden under a platform, jerk a string that made the balls bounce out if they happened to drop into the bucket. He got 25? a night. When he asked for 50? and was refused, he went lightly on the string, cost the boss many a duck. He passed on to soda jerking, pharmacy, shoe selling, then started...
Furious Communists had no intention of leaving him or any of their former allies in peace. Old hands at character assassination and the literary smear ("General Krivitsky, you are Schmelka Ginsburg!"), they vilified the deserters in cartoons and articles. But with its first-string literati gone, the New Masses was reduced to printing shrill invective by Ruth McKenney (My Sister Eileen}, low growls by professional Communist Growler Mike Gold (Jews Without Money), venomous cartoons by William Gropper...